Sixties Shadows

           The 1960s are often an underrated decade in Noir cinema as they are sandwiched between Classic Noir finishing in 1959 and Neo Noir starting to take real shape at end of 60s and beginning of 70s. But it's a decade which still produced superb Noir movies.

Plein Soleil

In Cold Blood

Accident

Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Knife in the Water

Point Blank

Le Trou

Eyes Without a Face

Deadly Affair

The Housemaid (1960)

Z

Blast of Silence

Tokyo Drifter

The Intruder (1962)

Le Samourai

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Peeping Tom

The Incident (1967)

La Femme Infidele

Pale Flower

Detective

The Hustler

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Le Doulos

In the Streets

                                My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
Edith Piaf

Never See the Day

 

Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton
1955

Catch Time By the Tail

       I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Mosaic Noir #235

They Made Me a Fugitive

Reservoir Dogs

Killers Kiss

Godfather

Ossessione

After Dark My Sweet

99 River Street

Bad Day at Black Rock

Carol

Double Indemnity

Changeling (2008)

Sweet Smell of Success

Hard Times

Gun Crazy

Killer Inside Me (2010)

Human Desire

Strictly Sinatra

Ride the Pink Horse

Naked Lunch

Night and the City

Strange Sins

She had eyes like strange sins.

Raymond Chandler

High Window

1942

Stephen Frears

The Grifters

Dirty Pretty Things

The Hit

Mary Reilly

Fail Safe